Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Thursday, October 22, 2026
Of all the great paintings in Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado, the one that possibly attracts the most visitors is Hieronymus Bosch’s “Garden of earthly delights”. Sean Sheehan It is a large triptych – over 213 cm (seven feet) high and 365 cm (12 feet) wide – but […]
The title of a new biography of an English poet, “Super-infinite”, points to the multi-faceted life of a 16th-century poet whose life journey unfolded in such unexpected ways as to fully earn the book’s subtitle: “The transformations of John Donne”. Sean Sheehan The love poetry and erotic verse […]
“Warriors for the Working Day” is a gripping tale of tank warfare in France after the Normandy landings in 1944. Sean Sheehan Although fictional, the story is based on the experiences of the author, Peter Elstob, who fought for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War before […]
Birds have never looked so utterly strange, gorgeous and non-human as they do in Tim Flack’s “Birds”. Set against completely black or white backgrounds, they are photographed with a starkness that renders them beautiful but also uncanny. Sean Sheehan Flack says the simple backgrounds help to heighten our […]
The key to commercial success for authors writing mainstream fiction in the West often comes down to their craft in maintaining narrative traction involving psychologically interesting characters. Sean Sheehan Emotional empathy is often established with one or more central character or, in the case of villains and psychopaths, […]
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